[뉴스] Are North Korean troops joining Russia’s war in Ukraine?

Russia’s army is forming a unit of some 3,000 North Koreans, a Ukrainian military intelligence source has told the BBC, in the latest report suggesting that Pyongyang is forming a close military <em>alliance</em> with the Kremlin.

[학술논문] 동아시아 외교안보 현황과 한일협력

...economies. On the other hand, there also exists in East Asia today competing political-military spheres consisting of liberal democracies such as the United States, Japan, and the ROK and a robust <em>alliance</em> between China and North Korea. While the nature of the competition between these two zones is different from the one that existed during the Cold War given the depth and levels of economic interactions...

[학술논문] China’s Military Rise and Its Implications for Regional and Peninsular Security

...important to note the continued relevance of the Korean Peninsula and the West Sea (Yellow Sea) to China’s security. The PLA’s force modernization should be subject to a regular and objective review, and the ROK planners must also continue a wide array of diplomatic and military measures including a hedging strategy, <em>alliance</em> politics, “limited defense sufficiency,” and domestic consensus- building.

[학술논문] China's Policy toward (South) Korea: Objectives of and Obstacles to the Strategic Partnership

...China and Pakistan*yet differed in terms of content and significance. Despite its strong non-<em>alliance</em> policy toward foreign nations, China still pushed through with the forging of a partnership with the Lee Myung-bak administration, which had just been launched under the newly reinforced ROK
U.S. <em>alliance</em>. This paper examines the reasons behind this partnership, theorizing that the significance hierarchy...

[학술논문] 조중연합사(朝中聯合司)가 '조선인민군' 재편성에 미친 영향

...People's Army(NKPA), even though the CCF's military intervention contributed to save North Korea from collapse-crisis in the war?". This phenomenon is contrary to the common belief that a military <em>alliance</em> between two nations normally binds and consolidates its relationship strong together, and will have a positive influence on a mutual norm and culture. This paper, focused on the dynamics of Kim Il-sung's...

[학술논문] 북한의 남한 군사연구 현황과 특징

...Korean regimes, it is evidenced that researches on the US military affairs were made more intensively than the ROK counterpart. Also, a majority of critical researches on the US and ROK military <em>alliance</em> have been made. It is so because researches on the the ROK military affairs made by North Korea have put the focal points on the ROK which is militarily subordinate to the US. It was the mid and end...

[국내] 한국의 핵무장론과 비대칭동맹의 딜레마:연루와 방기의 비등가성

... and <em>alliance</em> skepticism under the Trump administration. Rather than relying on the traditional assumption in asymmetric <em>alliance</em> theory that entrapment and abandonment risks are equivalent, this study adopts the inequivalence hypothesis to reinterpret the emergence of nuclear armament discourse in South Korea. Theoretically, the study challenges the symmetry assumption in existing <em>alliance</em> theories...

[국내] The trust-building process and korean unification

The Trust-building Process has greatly shaped the direction of the Park Geun-hye administration’s policy towards North Korea. Trust is a new concept in South Korea’s North Korea policy, and the Trustbuilding Process emerged as a new paradigm for policies on North Korea. The current government has diverged from the pathways of the previous governments. Since the end of the Cold War, South Korea’s economic

[국내] 한·미 확장억제정책위원회 구성의 의미와 과제

...전통적인 동맹의 우위를 과시하면서 천안함 사태 이후 전개되고 있는 한반도의 새로운 안보상황에 대비하기 위한 양국의 의지를 재확인하는 회의였다. 이번 회의에서 양국 국방장관은 다음과 같이 세 가지 중요한 문건을 승인하고 서명했다. - 향후 5년간 대한민국 합참으로 전시작전권을 전환하기 위한 기본 틀을 제공할 ‘전략동맹 2015’(the Strategic <em>Alliance</em> 2015) - 한‧미 상호방위조약에 기반한 동맹의 미래 비전을 구현하기 위한 문서인 ‘국방협력지침’(the Guidelines for U.S.-ROK Defense Cooperation) - 작전계획을 발전시키는 데 필요한 전략지침과 권한을 한‧미 군사위원회에 제공하는 ‘전략기획지침’(the Strategic Planning Guidance)

[국내] 러시아-북한-중국 삼각관계'의 전략적 함의: '미국 요인'과 한국에의 시사점

...involved has also been declining in terms of frequency and intensity compared to the trilateral regime established in the 1950’s. The Russo-Sino-North Korea triangle once characterized as a military <em>alliance</em> has been considerably weakened by the elimination of the automatic-military intervention clause from the treaty involving those three nations; and the close association between the parties and governments...

[국내] U.S. Contingency Plan for North Korea’s Regime Collapse

...North Korean contingency will include 1) security and elimination of North Korea’s WMD capabilities including nuclear program and missile system, 2) stabilizing the crisis inside North Korea, 3) <em>alliance</em> management with South Korea and Japan during and after the contingency, 4) preventing conflicts with China, and 5) supporting a reunification of Korea through free markets and a democratic polity...